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All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

~/.config is the non-root version of /etc these days. But you just have to know that, which isn't ideal.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    But what about .local/, or .appname/? It's just a mess

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago*

    ~/.local is the non-root version of /usr. By .appname do you just mean a folder that a specific app made in your home for itself? Yeah, I never condone that. imo that's just a badly behaving app. It should move that folder into ~/.config.

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